Sadia Shirazi
What we wrote when Sadia took part in Episode 11: 2024
Sadia Shirazi is a writer, curator, architect, and scholar based between London and New York. Shirazi’s interdisciplinary practice moves between text, installation, exhibitionary and archival practices. Their writing on art, architecture, and performance appears in frieze, e-flux journal, and Bidoun, as well as artist catalogues, peer-reviewed journals, and edited volumes. Shirazi was previously curator of International Art at the Tate Modern where they curated exhibitions, including Rasheed Araeen: Zero to Infinity (2024), and worked on acquisitions of underrepresented artists from South Asia and the diaspora for the museum’s permanent collection. Their collaborative work has been shown at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennial, Performance Space New York, and the Devi Art Foundation in Delhi.
Artist Events
When my heart looks for you, where will it find you?
Sadia Shirazi Mezna Qato Sakina Ali
A workshop inviting participants to enact a series of scores that explore witnessing, testimony, grief and mourning, facilitated by Mezna and Sadia, and accompanied by Sakina Ali.
Bring a Witness
Sadia Shirazi Mezna Qato
Sadia Shirazi & Mezna Qato will discuss a series of scores that explore the texture and landscape of exile, resistance, and Muslim sociality. These instructional scores trouble the idea that art and activism are untouched by faith and faith is untouched by art and activism.